My Beloved Fool - Chap 104
Chapter 104: Mediated reconciliation 2
Li Yu stayed with Lao Wu for dinner, but Lao Wu insisted on leaving.
After Lao Wu left, Li Yu worked alone in the kitchen. Although he cooked a little, he never studied cooking carefully, but he did it very carefully. He knows that a meal won’t change anything, but he’ll never let it go if he has a little chance to perform and look good in front of Jian Sui Ying.
He thought that he was still so young, he still had a lot of time, he was stubborn, if he had been working hard and sincerely good to Jian Sui Ying, one day he would be accepted again. He had realized that he had been pushing too hard earlier, which made Jian Sui Ying even more disgusted. So now he had to calm down, act steadily and convince Jian Sui Ying that he could be a man to depend on.
While he was cooking, the Jian Family grandson and his grandparent were having an awkward conversation in their study.
“Sui Ying, you shouldn’t think that changing people around for three days is manly. You can keep a person around for a lifetime and make him feel life is worth living with them. That’s the real manly ability.”
Jian Sui Ying sighed. “Grandpa, where are you going?”
“Don’t slap your eyes on me. I remember that when I first knew you were a rare man, I wasn’t mad at you. But then I figured out that I couldn’t care about you, and I was too lazy to do it. You’re not harmful to nature at least compared to what your father did. You are young, in good condition, with great social temptation and natural choice, but don’t think it’s a good thing to go on like this. Sooner or later, you will start to feel tired, you have to feel that there must be a person around you who knows you in the cold and the hot days, and will not come and go, that is, the person who follows you, will be next to you, and who will leave a lamp on for you when you go home at night. I don’t care about you if you don’t marry, but I don’t want to see you hanging around alone on the day I die, when everyone around you have companions.”
Jian Sui Ying lowered his head slightly and looked at his phalanges in amazement.
Old Grandpa Jian took a sip of tea to moisten his voice.
“When Little Li came to the door that day, I began to wonder if there was something wrong with the child, but later on I thought, I thought the child was really dedicated to you. The Li Family is a scholarly family. Every one of them is outstanding. They all have a high self-esteem. How to say, it’s like their family can’t have a bad one amongst them, otherwise it’s a different kind at home. Think about it. Growing up in a family like this, the kid dares confess to them himself. How much courage does it take? Even you would not dare not say that to the whole family.”
Jian Sui Ying whispered: “Grandpa, we’ve broken it off. What do you mean by that?”
“What do I mean?” The old man frowned and said, “The Li Family didn’t know that you had abducted their grandson. If they knew that, I would have to spare this old face to invite them to sin. So I have to say something to you.”
Jian Sui Ying leaned over and said, “Grandpa, I don’t need to ask you to be guilty of my sin. If the Li Family wants to find trouble with me, it’s my own business. Nothing is going to mess with Jian Sui Ying.”
The old man slapped the arm of the chair vigorously. “Is this a daring question? You go to provoke other people’s precious grandchildren, and then you don’t want them now. You think they don’t deserve us to bow our heads and apologize? You have to play b.a.s.t.a.r.ds to a limited extent. Don’t make me angry!”
Jian Sui Ying drooped his head helplessly and spoke of misery.
The old man sighed. “What’s wrong with you child? I think Little Li is very good everywhere and deserves you in every sense of the word. If you want to find a man, you have to find such an excellent one. You can’t find just a man, a man, a woman, or a woman…”
Jian Sui Ying looked at the old man incredulously. “What’s wrong with him when you’re dying for a granddaughter in law? Talk to him everywhere. Let me tell you Grandpa, it’s not me alone, it’s him… He, we, we can’t get along. You don’t know anything. You can’t just mix it up.”
The old man raised his voice. “You don’t think I’m bored, you don’t think I’m old enough to use one.”
Jian Sui Ying also wanted to answer him a few words, but he still held back. He couldn’t help laughing and crying. “Come on, I don’t want to quarrel with you. You eating with my granddaughter-in-law. I’m heading out.”
The old man shouted behind him, “I didn’t force you to chase after him. I said you couldn’t do it? Who the fxck got used to it for your stinky temper! ”
Jian Sui Ying was so annoyed that he wanted to plug his ears with cotton.
As soon as he pulled open the door, Li Yu came in just in front of him, grabbed him by the waist, and stabilized his body as he rushed forward.
“Brother Jian, where are you going before dinner?”
“No more.” Jian Sui Ying pushed him away and went out.
“Come back!” Old Grandpa Jian shouted like a bell, not like an old man at all.
Li Yu hurried to play the roundhouse. “Grandpa, don’t be angry, Brother Jian has this temper.”
He followed Jian Sui Ying and pressed him on the shoulder. “Brother Jian, don’t do that. You rarely see one another with your grandfather.”
Jian Sui Ying was angry and thought what onion you were. He rushed his b.u.t.t. He came back with his fist and aimed at Li Yu’s face.
Li Yu frowned and did not hide.
Jian Sui Ying’s fist braked before he put it on Li Yu cheek. He thought that if his fist really went on, he would be in big trouble.
His grandfather may not really want to stand on Li Yu’s side, but their grandparents and grandchildren have a fatal problem – not to be soft. The more Jian Sui Ying works against him, the more the old man wants to suppress him. From childhood to adulthood, he does not know how many times such a plot has been staged. Both of them win and lose half.
Sure enough, as soon as he turned his head, his grandfather was just behind them, squinting at them.
Li Yu holds Jian Sui Ying’s fist and slowly pulls his hand down. “Brother Jian, have a meal. Stop making noise.”
Jian Sui Ying glared at him angrily.
The old man walked past them and sat steadily at the table, humming from his nose, “You’re not a child yet.”
Jian Sui Ying sat down with patience after half a day in silence.
Li Yu turned out a bottle of Maotai, put it on the table, put three gla.s.ses on it, and poured alcohol into it.
Jian Sui Ying couldn’t help saying, “You don’t drink.”
Li Yu looked up at him and was secretly excited about his initiative to speak to himself. “Brother Jian, I can drink, I just don’t like it very much.”
Jian Sui Ying gave him a sidelong look and said, “Oh, how much can you drink?”
Li Yu chuckled and said, “No, but you can drink for me.”
Jian Sui Ying knows that Li Yu is provoking him, but the little flame of his struggle still hesitating to rise.
He pressed his winning heart, turned his head and raised his gla.s.s to his grandfather. “Grandpa, don’t be angry.”
The old man hummed again, raised his gla.s.s and dried it the drink.
After a gla.s.s of wine, they were all right. The old man began to enjoy the dishes happily.
Li Yu did not expect Jian Sui Ying to be so calm. He was disappointed and took a sip in silence.
The grandfather and grandson were chattering about each other. Li Yu was sitting next to them, adding dishes and wine. The picture was very harmonious.
As Jian Sui Ying was about to finish eating, the phone rang.
He dropped his chopsticks and took the strange number.
“h.e.l.lo?”
There was no one there to talk, only a few gasps.
Jian Sui Ying frowned. “h.e.l.lo?”
“… Brother…”
Jian Sui Ying’s heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the valley.
Without any psychological preparation, he heard the voice that he would never want to recall again in his life.
The sentence “I love you” from that mouth is the most vicious curse he has ever heard. It just makes him cold all over, like falling into the abyss, in retrospect.
Jian Sui Ying restrained the impulse to drop the phone out. He did not allow himself to show weakness.
He stood up stiffly, gripped the phone, and walked to the bedroom.
“Brother? Are you listening?” Jian Sui Lin’s voice was weak, but steady.
Jian Sui Ying whispered: “You’re still alive.”
“Oh, sorry to disappoint you brother, I did not die, I committed an humiliation, and I miss you so much.”
Jian Sui Ying held his trembling fist tightly and lowered his voice and said, “Jian Sui Lin, I don’t want to hear your voice anymore and I don’t want to see you anymore.”
“But I want to talk to you and see you. Brother, I’m sorry, I did something you can’t forgive me, but I don’t regret it.”
Jian Sui Ying gritted his teeth and said, “Yes, I’ll never forgive you. Go and die. You won’t get to see me unless you’re at your funeral.” After that, Jian Sui Ying hung up quickly.
Those unpleasant memories, occasionally appearing in his nightmares, can be said that Jian Sui Lin insulted him more painfully than Li Yu’s betrayal. If Li Yu threw his dignity on the ground, then Jian Sui Lin did it by crushing it.
He will never forgive his brother for what he did to him.
When Jian Sui Ying adjusted his mood and came out of the room, everyone could see that something was wrong with him.
The room was quiet, the phone was loud, and the other two present knew who the speaker was.
But the old man was just angry and disdainful. Li Yu put his fist under the table secretly. He hated the person on the other end of the phone and hated it to the bone.
Jian Sui Ying sat back in his chair with a pale face. Li Yu’s face was not much better than that of him.
The two eyes met, and the emotions in each other’s eyes were so complex that they could not be described in words, but they understood them one by one.
Li Yu’s eyes were filled with sadness and jealousy, and Jian Sui Ying’s eyes were deserted.
Li Yu was so sad that he couldn’t speak. Every time he thought about what happened to Jian Sui Ying, regret was like a sharp blade, cutting his internal organs back and forth, pressing him to face the b.l.o.o.d.y fact that he had lost Jian Sui Ying.
The old man lowered his eyes and said nothing about the telephone. Instead, he picked up the bottle and filled them with wine. “Drink it.”
Jian Sui Ying grabbed the gla.s.s and drank it.
Li Yu looked at his tired eyes and wanted to cry.
